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- From: thompson@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Todd Thompson)
- Subject: Re: .Z extension
- In-Reply-To: gpb@gpb-mac's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:43:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.133351.3650@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
- Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
- References: <1992Dec17.200018.28497@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> <1992Dec18.014311.5007@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:33:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.014311.5007@newsgate.sps.mot.com> gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman ) writes:
- >> jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:
- >> : Someone sent me a file, and after uudecoding it, it now remains a *.Z
- >> :
- >> :
- >> : How can I restore this thing back to its original (whole) self?
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- greg> What you have is a file that has been compressed with the unix compress
- greg> command. There may be a Mac app that will uncompress it, but the easy way
- greg> to take care of it is to ftp it to a unix system, uncompress it, and ftp
- greg> the resulting file (without the .Z) back to your Mac.
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- I believe that MacCompress will decompress a unix compressed file. It
- should be available on one of the ftp sites.
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- Todd
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